AdditionalPizza OP t1_itvjr9k wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:54 PM

Reply to comment by augustulus1 in With all the AI breakthroughs and IT advancements the past year, how do people react these days when you try to discuss the nearing automation and AGI revolution? by AdditionalPizza

To be honest, I don't ever think about Amish people's way of life or how that applies to 99.9% of the rest of the world.

So the solution is go become part of a luddite religion?

augustulus1 t1_itvm4qm wrote on October 26, 2022 at 5:09 PM

I think there will be hundreds of millions who will refuse the brave new world. I mean it's easier to accept cars and electricity than superhuman AI and a chip in your brain. Most likely there will be parallel societies. One super advanced and globalized society for those, who want to thrive and prosper, and a lot of backward looking societies for those who don't like the idea of rapidly advancing technology: neoluddites, ultra conservatives, qanon-guys, and other esoteric folks. Just think about the antivaxxer movement, how big it is. And because they have human rights, you can't force them to accept the technology. You guys, in this subreddit, always underestimate the human stupidity.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_itvt9hd wrote on October 26, 2022 at 5:54 PM

But that's not really the discussion. I don't care so much about what the minority that refuses technology does or doesn't do. They could go start their own low-tech society and pay taxes to their elected officials, but that doesn't help me in a world where I want to live with new technologies and strive to not have to work meaningless jobs ever again.

ReadSeparate t1_iu4njyx wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:57 PM

There's something you're missing here though, and that is that the minds in a superintelligent society will also be super-competent at convincing people to stop being luddites. They would probably capable of saying the PERFECT thing to convince virtually everyone, and for those that aren't convinced, they will eventually die off because they presumably will refuse life extension tech as well.

So, in the long term, we're talking about the whole planet here.

There's also the possibility that the superintelligent society does it by force as well. They may determine it's less immoral to force them to assimilate than it is to allow them to live regular human lives filled with suffering and hardship.